This is what I did today. I was a helper at Techlinks at Duxford airfield. My engineering chum talked me into it a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it sufficently to volunteer to go back each year. This year, I was helping with the Jitterbug.
Hard work though, 40 children in groups of 4 to see through an hour-long task, then a few minutes later, during which time you frantically refill boxes of equipment, another 40.
Some really great children this year, sometimes you have groups who can't work together, of don't listen to/read instructions, or wait passively to be told what to do, but this time most of them independently read the worksheet, checked the list of equipment, did the right thing in the right order and were happy to go off with their completed item.
So yes, all being well, I'll be back again next year.
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Once a year should be just aboout right to avoid it bcoming chore.
my engineer pal takes several days of his holiday each year, as well as time given by his firm, to do this sort of voluntary work, as he is passionately keen on interesting children in science and technology and making them see it can be fun and useful. Lots of them think that engineering is making and mending car engines.
but yes, for me an occasional day is probably enough.
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